The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-15
News of the Week.

It is feared that large numbers of cattle in
Montana have been killed by the intense
cold.
months, died in Adams county, Pa, on Jan
uary 5th.
John Roach, the great ship builder, died
on Sunday morning, in New York, aged 20
years. He was a native of Ireland.
An earthquake tremor was felt slightly at
Charleston and sharply at Summerville, South
Carolina, at O'Clock on Monday evening.
Harris Wilton, of Wrightsville, Pa, has
failed, liabilities $25, 1000; John A. q A. R.
Thompson, of the same place, have also failed,
liabilities $4,000.
The ship Harvey Mills recently foundered
at sea while on a voyage from Seattle to San
Francisco. She had "a men on board, only
three of whom were saved.
1t is said that a company has been formed
in Memphis, Tennessee, with three million
dollars paid in capital to mine extensive man
ganese beds in Missouri and Arkansas.
Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist, who left San
Francisco on April 18th, 1884, for a bicycle
tour around the world, returned to San Fran
cisco on Friday by steamer from Japan.
Elijah Rabbit, practicing lawyer of Erie,
Penna., died last Sunday, in his 92d year:
He had served in the State Legislature, and
was representative in Congress from 1858 to
1862.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says it is
officially stated that 405 persons were burned
to death in the incendiary fire which destroyed
the reserved enclosure in the Peoples Park
last week.
The Gem Iron Furnace at Mines, Page
county, Virginia, which has been idle since
November 18th by having chilled, was put in
blast on Saturday. Six hundred hands will
again be put to work.
The dynamite factory at Plattsburg, New
York, caught fire and was blown up on Tues
day morning. The shock was felt fora distance
of twenty miles, and doors and windows were
ratified as if by an earthquake.
San Francisco was shaken by an earth
quake on Tuesday morning at eight minutes
after four o'clock. The direction of the
wave was from east to west and the duration
seven seconds. No damage was done.
Rev. J. J. Glosbrenner, Bishop Emeritus of
the Church of the United Brethren, died on
Friday of last week in Churchville, Virginia,
AGED IA years. He was elected Bishop in
! lS45, and made emeritus two years ago.
The strike of the brewers in st. Louis
begun last September was ended on Saturday
| by an agreement between the strikers and the
EMPLOYERS Ofall the strikers, only so remain
in st. Louis. These will be reinstated, and
wages will be raised all around.
Michael Gilroy, miner, aged sixty-hve,
while on his knees at mass in st. Peters
Cathedral, at Scranton, Pa, on Sunday, died
unobserved by those in the pew beside him.
He was at work the previous day and ate &
hearty breakfast before going to church.
Ten students from Harvard and ten from
the University of Virginia, presented them
selves for examination for the medical staff t. o
tbe United States Navy, the Charlottesville
WAY Chronicle asserts, and of the II
Harvard men failed, while of the other II
passed.
Rev. I. C. Nuetzel, Pastor of Trinity Lu
theran Church, in Oshkosh Wisconsin, ha
announced that next Sunday he will preach
sermon devoted entirely to the knights
Labor, and if after that members Of his churc
persist in belonging to the order, he will expe
them from the church.
It was said on Wednesday in New Ior
, sat least 10000 workmen have been throw
out of employment, and that 10000 person
are suffering as result of the strike of tn
1000 coal handlers" The retail price of co;
for all sizes, except pea. was on the same da
| advanced to So per ton in Brooklyn and Ne
York.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train WI
/. thrown from the track near Dunbar, Nebra
E ka, on Tuesday night, by the removal of
|. rail. and James B. Davitt, the engineer, W.
I killed: Frank O. Chenewith, express messel
r ger. being dangerously, if not fatally, inlure'
t Two other train men and seventeen passe
gers were injured, but not MORALLY.